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Preliminary Call for Participation
HYPERTEXT '91
Third ACM Conference on Hypertext
San Antonio, Texas, USA
December 15-18, 1991
Hypertext '91 is an international research conference on hypertext.
The ACM Hypertext Conference occurs in the United States every
second year in alternation with ECHT, the European Conference
on Hypertext.
Hypertext systems provide computer support for locating,
gathering, annotating, and organizing information. Hypertext
systems are being designed for information collections of diverse
material in heterogeneous media, hence the alternate name, hypermedia.
Hypertext is by nature multi-disciplinary, involving researchers in
many fields, including computer science, cognitive science,
rhetoric, and education, as well as many application domains. This
conference will interest a broad spectrum of professionals in these
fields ranging from theoreticians through behavioral researchers to
systems researchers and applications developers. The conference
will offer technical events in a variety of formats as well as guest
speakers and opportunities for informal special interest groups.
Suggested Formats and Topics
We are inviting you to participate in HT'91 in one of seven
different areas of the technical program: papers, panels, courses,
videos, technical briefings, posters, or demos. Submitters may be
invited to participate in the technical program in a different
category from that in which they submitted their work.
Submissions in all areas of hypertext research are encouraged.
Topics of interest would include the following:
Paradigms for information access
Information design
Theories, models, and frameworks
Experimental or observational studies of use
Workplace deployment issues
Structuring hypertext documents for reading and retrieval
Underlying technologies (persistent object stores, link
services, databases, information retrieval, access control)
For More Information:
Hypertext '91 Conference email: ht91@bush.tamu.edu
John J. Leggett, General Chair
Hypertext '91 Conference
Hypertext Research Lab
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843 USA
Voice: 409 845-0298
Fax: 409 847-8578
email: leggett@bush.tamu.edu
Janet H. Walker, Program Chair
Hypertext '91 Conference
Digital Equipment Corporation
Cambridge Research Lab
One Kendall Square, Bldg 700
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Voice: 617 621-6618
Fax: 617 621-6650
email: jwalker@crl.dec.com
Conference Committee
General Chair: John J. Leggett (Texas A&M University)
Technical Program Chair: Janet H. Walker (Digital Equipment Corp.)
Executive Administrator: John L. Schnase (Texas A&M University)
Administrative Assistant: David L. Hicks (Texas A&M University)
Proceedings: Richard Furuta and David Stotts (Univ. of Maryland)
Student Volunteers: Charles J. Kacmar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.)
Industry Liaison: John Chen (Texas Instruments)
Treasurer: Mark Longley (Lockheed Software Technology Center)
Publications: Ed Cunnius (Texas A&M University)
Publicity: Nicole Yankelovich (IRIS/Brown University)
Registration: Elise Yoder (Knowledge Workshop)
Local Arrangements: Paul Weissmann (Intelogic Trace)
Audio/Visual: David L. Hicks (Texas A&M University)
Technical Program Committee
Technical Chair, Papers: Janet H. Walker (Digital Equipment Corp.)
Courses Chair: Robert J. Glushko (Search Technology)
Panels Chair: Norman Meyrowitz (IRIS/Brown University)
Technical Briefings Chair: Jakob Nielsen (Bellcore)
Video Chair: Tim Oren (Apple Computer)
Demos Chair: Amy Pearl (Sun Microsystems)
Posters Chair: Gary Perlman (The Ohio State University)
Patricia M. Baird (University of Strathclyde)
Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems, Inc.)
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts)
Steven K. Feiner (Columbia University)
Carolyn Foss (Sun Microsystems)
Mark E. Frisse (Washington University Medical School)
Richard Furuta (University of Maryland)
Frank Halasz (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
Matt Hodges (Digital Equipment Corp.)
Paul Kahn (Brown University)
George P. Landow (Brown University)
Catherine Marshall (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
Ray McAleese (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland)
Antoine Rizk (INRIA, France)
Norbert Streitz (GMD-IPSI, Germany)
Randall H. Trigg (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Polle T. Zellweger (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
Summary of Deadlines
Papers, panels, courses, videos, and technical briefings postmarked
by: April 12, 1991
Demos and posters postmarked by: August 25, 1991
Acceptance notification for papers, panels, courses, videos, and tech-
nical briefings: June 1, 1991
Final versions due for proceedings: July 31, 1991
Final videos due for production: September 30, 1991
Technical Program Description
To maximize the opportunity for attendees to discuss their own
work at the conference, we offer a variety of technical events.
These events are described in detail here to help you determine the
best presentation medium for your work.
Note: ACM will hold copyright on all material appearing in the
proceedings.
Papers Chair: Janet H. Walker
Technical papers present integrative reviews or original reports of
substantive new work (theoretical, empirical, or systems). We
discourage lab activity reports and simple descriptions of projects
or commercial products. We encourage emphasizing "lessons
learned" and providing a clear concise message to the audience
about the relevance of the work. The paper must place your work
in context within the field, citing related work and indicating
clearly what aspects of the work are new.
Submissions: Papers must be written in English, of length
equivalent to 5 to 10 single-spaced pages (3000-6000 words).
Papers exceeding this limit are likely to be rejected on the basis of
length alone. Please provide a separate cover page with the title,
the name and affiliation of the author(s), plus complete contact
address (including telephone, fax, e-mail) for the author to whom
correspondence should be addressed. In addition, the cover page
must include an abstract of 200 words and several keywords.
Papers that exceed the length limit, omit the cover sheet, or are
posted after the deadline will not be reviewed.
Deadline: Postmarked by April 12, 1991
Submit to:
Janet H. Walker
Digital Equipment Corporation
Cambridge Research Lab
One Kendall Square, Bldg 700
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
voice: 617 621-6618
fax: 617 621-6650
email: jwalker@crl.dec.com
Courses Chair: Robert J. Glushko
Courses enhance the skills and broaden the perspective of their
attendees. Courses should be designed to provide advanced
technical training in an area or to introduce a rigorous framework
for learning a new area. Courses can be proposed for half-day (3
hours) or full-day (6 hours) length. General survey courses are not
appropriate, nor are courses that focus narrowly on a particular
product, commercial methodology, or research agenda.
We would like to achieve a balanced course program with a variety
of compatible offerings in three complementary tracks:
Technology Track: Technical options in using underlying or
related technology: databases, information retrieval, indexing,
artificial intelligence, expert systems, user interface tools,
animation, filmmaking, SGML.
Methods Track: Systematic approaches, firmly grounded on
experience and lessons learned, for planning and carrying out
successful hypertext projects: project management, evaluation,
testing, standards, CALS compliance, legal issues.
Applications/Domain Track: Coherent frameworks with case
studies, lessons learned, technology and methods for developing
applications in particular domains: software engineering, education,
online documentation, public access information, collaborative
authoring, manufacturing, medicine.
Courses will be selected on the basis of the instructor's
qualifications for teaching the proposed course and the contribution
of the course to the overall conference program.
Submissions: Proposals should include a clear description of the
course objectives, the intended audience, the length (half- or
full-day), the intended track, a 200-word abstract, a 1-page topical
outline of the course content, a description of the instructor's
qualifications for teaching the proposed course, and any other
information that might be helpful in evaluating the proposal.
Submit two copies of the proposal.
Deadline: Postmarked by April 12, 1991. No fax submissions.
Submit to:
Robert J. Glushko
Search Technology
4725 Peachtree Corners Circle, Suite 200
Norcross, GA 30092 USA
voice: 404 441-1457
fax: 404 263-0802
email: glushko%srchtec@gatech.edu
Panels Chair: Norman Meyrowitz
Panels provide an interactive forum for involving both panelists and
audience in lively discussions of issues in the subject area of the
panel. Panels for HT '91 will not take the traditional symposium
form in which the speakers present a short talk on their own
research. Rather, HT '91 panels will address fundamental issues,
methods, questions, and approaches in all areas of hypertext
research or products.
Each panel must be moderated by someone who is comfortable
interviewing panel members, interrupting panelists at appropriate
times, weaving together the thoughts of the panel members, and
making the panel an exciting event. We anticipate that the
moderator will also propose the panel, although this is not required.
Panels will be selected on the potential that 90 minutes of
interaction between the panelists and with the audience can bring to
light fundamental open issues in hypermedia.
Submissions: Moderators are invited to be creative in devising a
format to meet the goal of 90 minutes of lively interaction. One
suggested format consists of panelists answering a set of leading
questions proposed by the moderator. The moderator must submit
a 3 to 5 page panel proposal with a list of panelists. The proposal
must include a description of the format to be used, the questions
to be raised, the likely issues and controversies to be explored, and
how each panelist will contribute to the overall event. Panel
statements will appear in the proceedings.
Deadline: Postmarked by April 12, 1991. No fax submissions.
Submit to:
Norman Meyrowitz, Director
Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS)
Brown University
Box 1946
Providence, RI 02912 USA
voice: 401 863-2943
fax: 401 863-1758
email: nkm@iris.brown.edu
Technical Briefings Chair: Jakob Nielsen
Technical briefings provide a presentation medium for presenting
details of a concrete design rather than an empirical
or theoretical contribution. It is intended for designers to
communicate valuable insights and experience to implementors and
designers. It should be a frank discussion of the decision points
and trade-offs involved in the design of some hypertext system or
application.
A briefing consists of a 30 minute in-depth presentation of the
interesting contributions made by the system, accompanied by live
interaction with the system.
Technical briefings are intended for material that is better presented
by showing the system interactively than by a traditional paper.
Proposed presentations will be judged on the interest of the
technical messages to be delivered to the audience. Sales-oriented
presentations will not be accepted.
Submissions: Submit five copies of a (maximum) five page
description outlining the points to be made in the briefing.
Although it is impossible to submit the actual, interactive
performance of a technical briefing, potential presenters are
welcome to submit one copy of a video tape (NTSC or PAL Umatic
or NTSC VHS) of some presentation like the one planned for the
conference instead of the written description. A short description
of the technical briefing will appear in the conference proceedings
to provide backup information for future reference.
Screen projection equipment will be provided by the conference.
Presenters will be required to arrange for their own hardware and
systems software.
Deadline: Postmarked by April 12, 1991. No fax submissions.
Submit to:
Jakob Nielsen
Bellcore, MRE 2P-370
445 South St
Morristown, NJ 07962-1910 USA
voice: 201 829-4731
fax: 201 538-9093
email: nielsen@bellcore.com
Posters Chair: Gary Perlman
Poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking
results, significant work in progress, or work that is best
communicated in conversation. Poster sessions let conference
attendees exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors
discuss their work in detail with those attendees most deeply
interested in the same topic.
Posters will be accepted much later than papers in order to provide
an opportunity for presenting and getting feedback on hot new
ideas. Posters will be reviewed by a panel of subject-matter
experts and will be selected on the basis of their contribution to
research or practice.
Submissions: Submit an extended abstract of at most two pages
emphasizing the problem, what was done, and why the work is
important. Electronic submission is preferred. Please provide
cover information: the title, the name and affiliation of the
author(s), complete contact address (including telephone, fax,
e-mail) for the author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Because of the interactive nature of poster presentations, only one
submission will be accepted per author.
Deadline: Postmarked by August 25, 1991
Submit to:
Gary Perlman
Computer and Information Science Department
Ohio State University, 228 Bolz Hall
2036 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1277 USA
voice: 614 292-2566
fax: 614 292-9021
email: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu
Demonstrations Chair: Amy Pearl
Demonstrations provide an opportunity for first-hand and hands-on
experience with hypertext systems and databases. Conference
attendees have the opportunity to interact directly with the
developers of systems that embody unique or interesting ideas.
For HT '91 we are seeking proposals for demonstrations of
hypertext systems and databases. These demonstrations are meant
to focus on technology and new ideas. This is not a trade show
opportunity for marketing or sales presentations. Presenters of the
systems must be individuals who have been directly involved with
the development of the system, and who are aware of the
differentiating and interesting ideas embodied by their system.
Unlike the technical briefings, the demonstrations provide for
conference attendees to obtain hands-on experience with systems.
The demonstrations will be held during the evenings, as part of the
evenings' techno-social activities.
Demonstrations will be evaluated for suitability, based on what you
propose to demonstrate, what is noteworthy about your system, its
differences and similarities to other work, tradeoffs made in design,
and who will be conducting the demonstration.
Submissions: Proposals should contain a written description of your
planned demonstration at most three pages long explaining why it
will be a good addition to the demo program. It must indicate who
will present the demo and describe the electrical requirements of
your equipment.
Presenters will be required to arrange for their own hardware and
systems software.
Deadline: Postmarked by August 25, 1991
Submit to:
Amy Pearl
Sun Microsystems MS 12-33
2550 Garcia Ave
Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
voice: 415 960-1300
fax: 415 964-0946
email: pearl@eng.sun.com
Video Chair: Tim Oren
The Hypertext '91 video program will be a compilation of
submitted videos which will be shown continuously during the
conference. Videos are appropriate for demonstrations that would
be difficult to show live, for illustrating concepts that are hard to
describe verbally, or for presenting prototypes or work in progress.
Video may also be appropriate for hypertext systems whose
individual features are not unique, but whose total effect is a
significant advance.
The video program will be refereed. The primary criteria will be
novelty of the concepts illustrated and value to conferees of the
overall demonstration. Tapes may be rejected for poor production
quality, commercial rather than technical or scientific treatment, or
if they are simply too boring to watch. If the system shown is a
prototype, the video itself should clearly indicate its status.
Videos should be 5 to 15 minutes in length, although there is no
absolute limit. Lengthy submissions will be judged more
stringently for value of content and production quality. We will not
edit your tape; please be concise.
Submissions: Submit one copy of a tape. 3/4 inch Umatic tapes are
preferred. 1/2 inch VHS or 8mm formats will also be accepted, but
may result in lower visual quality. NTSC format (used in North
America and Japan) is strongly preferred, but PAL (used in most of
Europe) will also be accepted. Please clearly indicate format on the
submission.
A rough cut and/or full shooting script, with final program length
indicated, will be considered but judged more stringently. Each
submission should be accompanied by a one page description with
full credits, for inclusion in the conference literature. A primary
contact person should be designated. Indicate the final format
which will be delivered for production.
Deadlines: Scripts or tapes must be postmarked by April 12, 1991.
Final tapes for production must be received by September 30, 1991.
The video chair may summarily reject final tapes whose length or
content differ significantly from those indicated in a rough cut or
script.
Submit to:
Tim Oren
Apple Computer
20525 Mariani Ave., MS 76-2C
Cupertino, CA 95014 USA
voice: 408 974-3345
fax: 408 974-9793
email: oren@apple.com
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HYPERTEXT '91
Third ACM Conference on Hypertext
San Antonio, Texas, USA
December 15-18, 1991
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Nicole Yankelovich
Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS)
Box 1946, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912